Head of Business Development

3 weeks ago


Canterbury Kent, United Kingdom Ashford College Full time

East Kent Colleges Group is seeking to recruit a Group Head of Business Development.

This brand new role will see you working closely with the Chief Business Officer to identify new opportunities for collaboration within industry and across employment sectors.

Using your expert knowledge, research, and employer links, you will build and develop effective relationships with employers and adopt key account management practices. This will enhance our delivery of student activities, as well as supporting learners in their career planning and development.

You will also lead employer training needs analysis activities, utilising a variety of tools to develop training plans for employers, identifying their training priorities, and creating opportunities for the Group to develop new programmes and services.
Working as the Group Head of Business Development at EKC Group is an extremely rewarding role with excellent benefits, such as:
Competitive holiday entitlement
Store, retail and gym discounts
Cycle to work scheme
Generous pension scheme
Opportunity to progress, train and develop
We are seeking to appoint a Group Head of Business Development with experience of working in the further education sector.
be highly organised and be able to prioritise work whilst applying a flexible and responsive approach to work demands.
have a clear understanding of the local employment market and the needs of employers be able to communicate and negotiate with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders
If you would like more information regarding this role, or an informal chat, please contact the Resourcing Team on jobs@ekcgroup.Outstanding Ofsted Provider
East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

EKC Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles. We therefore have an obligation to carry out robust checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults; If you are successful in obtaining an interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process. Applicants should note that it is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so. All applicants are required to complete and submit a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.

EKC Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce. We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award; this confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.
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